We find people of value,' she said, speaking like a teacher addressing a small child, 'and we determine what story they need to hear. It's the story that they're already telling themselves, don't you...
Time is our friend, because for us there is no end. He
Life was short, love was rare, and time.time was easy to waste.
What still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled...
An honorable quality.
He was giving Gerry that flat stare again, the one that sent spiders crawling into your brain.
There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific sc...
The walls were bare wood now, unadorned by the maps and photographs. All that remained was the thumbtacks, which protruded in all directions, tilting like gravestones in a forgotten cemetery.
To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn’t the truth. The most sin...
So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The wo...
He kept the gun in his lap as he drove, and he prayed. It was the strangest prayer he’d ever offered. He asked for strength to do the wrong thing, and then forgiveness for doing it.
It was all about size now: the big ran the world on the sweat of the small, and if the big faltered for any reason, the small were the first to go.
Based on what the wind does, we build
Las personas entran y salen de nuestra de vida. Nunca llegamos a enterarnos de cuándo y cómo llegan, ni tampoco de cuándo y cómo se van. Simplemente, aprendemos de ello, lo sobrellevamos como podemos...
He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.
You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it bec...
You're too worried about figuring out what you can believe about all of this, and then figuring out how to control it. That's how most people approach their lives. Way I feel, though, after a lot of y...
Permanecí en silencio. No quería decirle que aquello era una práctica común. No quería contarle que en el mundo de los negocios los secretos son dinero, que el miedo es una arma, que el conocimiento e...
You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where’s the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world,...
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